148 Quotes by Malorie Blackman

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

Boys don’t cry, but men do.

Well, it’s true. If she ever had an original thought it would die of loneliness.

That was all it took – a shower of rain, the slam of a door, the thrust of a knife or a gunshot – and just like that, a person could be gone with nothing but the memories of others to show that they’d ever existed.